Date archive: 2017

21 December 2017, SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK – In the second part of our feature story on designing the SKA telescopes, we look back at the ongoing global effort to deliver the SKA dish prototype, with work happening … Read more

18 December 2017, SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK – It is an understatement to say that designing and building a world-class scientific instrument comes with its challenges. The Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS1) is one of the major … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK – Today Thursday November 9th, on the occasion of the 25th meeting of the SKA Board of Directors, SKA Organisation and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the US National Science Foundation facility operating … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK – Today Friday October 13th, the Board of Directors of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Organisation approved the appointment, with immediate effect, of its new Chair, Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, following the recommendation from its … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK, Wednesday 11 October – On Monday the Board of the SKA’s international Signal and Data Transport (SaDT) consortium selected the synchronisation distribution system designs to be used for both SKA telescopes, endorsing the decision … Read more

SKA Global Headquarters, Jodrell Bank, UK, Thursday 5 October 2018 – Most people aren’t familiar with methyl chloride, but this complex organic molecule was widely believed to be an indicator of Life if detected on another planet. In a recent … Read more

CERN Headquarters, Geneva, Friday 14 July 2017 – SKA Organisation and CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, yesterday signed an agreement formalising their growing collaboration in the area of extreme-scale computing. The agreement establishes a framework for collaborative projects … Read more

The Ministries of Ghana and South Africa announced the combination of ‘first light’ science observations which confirm the successful conversion of a Ghanaian communications antenna from a redundant telecoms instrument into a functioning Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. … Read more